Issue Committee

How We Work

NFFC chooses its projects based on the potential to empower family farmers by reducing the corporate control of agriculture and promoting a more socially just farm and food policy.
NFFC carries out these projects through issue committees- Trade Issue Committee, Farm and Food Policy Issue Committee (includes Dairy Subcommittee) and Credit Issue Committee.
Farmers representing their respective organizations share similar strategies for renewing family farm agriculture but politicians often pit regional groups against each other in public policy debates. Working in issue committees enables farm groups of differing commodities and in various regions to develop national organizing strategies and directly participate in issue work